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Slice of life.
I wear an extrovert mask.
Someone called me a polymath.

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Some_Emo_Chick, to history
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Amy Johnson, UK, 1933

She was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight

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@Some_Emo_Chick

"She was killed 5th January 1941, aged 37, after baling out into the Thames Estuary from Airspeed Oxford V3540."

Much more biographical material about these interesting people at:

https://www.ata-ferry-pilots.org/index.php/timeline-all-women-pilots

Some_Emo_Chick, to Vintage
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For Easter, Some Bunnies at the NYC Playboy Club, 1969

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@Some_Emo_Chick

Jodi, Ma[ry?], Erica[?], Cathy, Marilyn

I would have guessed their name badges were worn at their cleavage.

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If you use Homebrew on MacOS, you're affected—do 'brew update' and 'brew upgrade’.
https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/112179988525798247

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@SteveBellovin

xz --version

to see if you have 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 installed

brew deps --tree --installed

.. to show who uses it, what you have to remove to get rid of it. In my case, it was:

brew remove curl
brew remove zstd

and then

brew uninstall --force xz

indivisibleteam, to random
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The leader of the GOP is selling a $60 Bible that will help pay his lawyers. According to the website, it is "the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!"

Let's end this con artist's political career in November: https://act.indivisible.org/survey/majority_over_maga_signup?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

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@indivisibleteam

That photo is from June 1, 2020, after Trump used "U.S. Park Police, local police, Secret Service officers, and National Guard troops .. tear gas .. and rubber bullets to drive protesters away from the exact spot where the president was standing."

I opine it was intended as a thrill for white "christian" supremacists: it shows Donald Trump using government force to sweep aside a George Floyd protest in the name of Jesus.

That will definitely sell Bibles in America.

shoq, (edited ) to random
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POLL: Suppose sponsors supported your local Fediverse instance in return for a set number of ads per hour (20 or less), and never with an algorithm positioning them. And the ads stay local to that community and don’t federate.

Is this a reasonable proposition to offset the costs of communities?

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@shoq

FAFO: You can do anything you want, but people can just walk away any time they want.

I'd like to see automatic software support for cost sharing of the hosting of an instance by the users of an instance, perhaps with proportionality considered.

And if contributions weren't enough, then maybe cover shortfall with advertising.

Like, post a lot, pay your share: no ads; pay less, then you view an ad to post until you're even. View a lot, pay less: private ads for you until you're even.

JenMsft, to random
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This is the way

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@JenMsft

.. and the next step is having a RIDiculousLY large command line history, with timestamps.

If I have ever done it, I can find it and do it again.

MissingThePt, to random
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Breaking: Trump promises a blood bath if he loses and a blood bath if he wins.

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@MissingThePt

No wonder he is so popular.

memory, to random
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If they get Voyager 1 working again, this will go down in history as the absolute pinnacle of the art of debugging. You think your codebase and kubernetes cluster is hard to deal with? Motherfucker try doing this with a delay of light-hours.

If there’s an award for this it should be in the shape of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a pile of printouts taller than her. https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112091847867604195

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@memory

"This new signal resulted from a command sent to Voyager 1 on March 1. Called a “poke” by the team, the command is meant to gently prompt the FDS to try different sequences in its software package in case the issue could be resolved by going around a corrupted section."

Think back: when was the first time you heard poke (and peek) used in a computer-oriented context?

sdw, to random
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Arrakis.

(airplane window shots descending into Las Vegas. iPhone 15 Pro, pentaprism (5×) lens, @halide ProRAW)

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@sdw @halide

I have always found those three solar power plants at Ivanpah interesting, especially the view from the air, like you present here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

18+ Frances_Larina, to random
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In case you were wondering which side the head of the Catholic Church was taking in the invasion of Ukraine by Russia:

"Pope Francis: Ukraine should have the courage of the ‘white flag’ and negotiate an end of the war with Russia"

https://apnews.com/article/pope-ukraine-war-russia-negotiations-defeat-turkey-6adb3177a654489255ac4bcbf0319ffb

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@WhippoorwillSong @Frances_Larina

Perhaps the Pontiff has concerns that are primarily religious 🙄

from https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251178/what-s-the-future-of-catholic-russian-orthodox-relations

"The Russian Orthodox Church had seen in Pope Francis a possible way to overcome its international isolation.

The pope appeared to burn the bridges of dialogue. But the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity has somehow re-established them, while making clear that it does not agree with the war in Ukraine or the positions of the Moscow Patriarchate."

mcnees, to random
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Physicist and chemist Richard Chace Tolman was born in 1881. He showed that electricity in metal is the flow of electrons, developed relativistic applications of thermodynamics, and served as science advisor to General Leslie Groves during WWII.

Image: Caltech / Oregon State

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@mcnees

It's over a century old, so I doubt that its a big moneymaker for a paywall, so I poked around and found an open copy of it:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/83360

KrissyKat, to Indiana
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    It is a big deal. Could be considered brandishing. He could lose his concealed carry license.

    I think those minors are in a unique position and are likely to be able to make him very sorry he did that.

    Some_Emo_Chick, to Funny
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    Clearly fake Taylor Swift CIA training photos posted or "leaked" online. Confirming conspiracy theorists fears that they fall for anything

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    @Some_Emo_Chick

    Look at her "hands". Clearly AI generated.

    mcnees, to random
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    Had just settled down
    To a long winter's nap

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    @mcnees

    A public annotation:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nud2TQNahaU

    masukomi, (edited ) to programming
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    Last night we had to debug our ambulance 🚑 in sub-freezing dark.

    I made a blog post about it, because I think it made for an easy-to-understand, and very "concrete" example of the debugging techniques we use in . It's also a good example of how practicing the good techniques, and habits can help us outside of work.

    https://weblog.masukomi.org/2023/12/08/debugging-our-ambulance/

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    @masukomi

    It sounds like an additional failure of isolation between the chassis battery and the house battery. A dead converter should never kill the chassis battery.

    The house is never allowed to draw down the chassis battery, and for this purpose there should be either a diode or relay based isolator between the two circuits.

    There can also be a momentary contact only switch that can bridge the two circuits, to allow the house battery to boost a dead chassis battery.

    SrRochardBunson, to ShareYourMusic

    Are you a looking for a collective or collaborators?
    :blobcatthink:
    What would collaboration among authors even look like?
    :thinkSpin:
    https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/111422975152192799

    @courtcan

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    @courtcan @skribe @SrRochardBunson

    The contents, small and flattened, in arrears but not abandoned, seem suddenly missing, as if picked by an artful dodger.

    mcnees, to history
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    The "Arecibo Message" was beamed towards globular cluster M13 in 1974, during the dedication of an upgrade to the radio telescope. It was the first message sent with the intention of alerting extraterrestrials to life on earth.

    The message was 1679 bits, arrayed into 73 rows and 23 columns. It contained depictions of the numbers 1-10, the solar system, the human form, and info about the elements and biochemical structures associated with life on Earth.

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    @mcnees

    We only sent one copy and it took about 3 minutes.

    That's one unique grain of sand in a vast sea of time.

    SETI says one of their receivers could capture it in M13, where it was aimed, given an antenna the size of Arecibo, but whoever was receiving would have to be looking right at the signal when it arrived.

    A vast sea of space, as well.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDBTYfn9D8&pp=ygUQbm8gb25lIHJlY2VpdmluZw%3D%3D

    ifixcoinops, to random
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    Lost Harley the cat this morning.

    We've had him spread out on a towel downstairs the past couple of hours, took turns telling stories about him, the usual wake stuff, you know.

    Kid's been watching over him while I do the work outside. Mad respect to sextons, it's hard bloody work.

    Had to come in and do the grim job of measuring him, now having a quick cup of tea before I go back out and widen his grave a bit. Well, a lot really.

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    @ifixcoinops

    Here of late we've taken to telling our pets, "Oh, you're going to make me cry."
    They don't mind.

    b9AcE, to random
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    Police nabbed a graffiti artist attempting to flee the scene of committing this (picture) adorable art in the harbor of Visby, Gotland, the large island just outside southeastern mainland Sweden.
    The 27-year-old was prosecuted for vandalism, with the prosecutor demanding a fine.

    Police's interrogation records said e.g. that "His intention is to offer free art to passersby." and... the District Court of Gotland... agreed.

    The court's ruling states that no harm has been proven and that the artist "on a gray and cracked concrete façade which is the short end of a loading dock, has depicted a lamb.", that "The way in which X has illustrated the lamb testifies to an artistic work carried out with a certain amount of artistic and technical skill." then finally "According to the District Court's opinion, the beauty value of the cracked concrete façade - in purely objective terms - has increased through X's painting." so the 27-year old artist was acquitted by the court, which also ruled that the police had must return the spray cans they had confiscated.

    Damn hippies. ;-D

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    @b9AcE

    A bit Aardman looking, and very good, but the role of police does not allow much discretion regarding the technical execution of vandalism.

    I walk in the urban waste places and would enjoy seeing Sheep like that. And Girafa, too:

    https://flickr.com/search/?text=girafa%20graffiti

    Frances_Larina, (edited ) to random
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    Stumbled on this buried lede:

    "Once in the air, the vehicle is expected to fly over “several communities” to gather data on how people react to the significantly reduced sonic booms. Afterward, NASA says they will share their findings with domestic and international regulators “to potentially adjust rules that currently prohibit commercial supersonic flight over land.”"

    Why does this feel like someone is using NASA to fly a single experimental craft a handful of times in order to repeal or knock down the rules that are stopping the ultra-wealthy from flying supersonic to the other side of the globe simply for their convenience?

    https://thedebrief.org/nasas-mysterious-x-59-supersonic-experimental-aircraft-is-finally-gearing-up-for-its-first-flight/

    Oh, that's right: Boom supersonic's newly announced, long developed "Overture" super expensive supersonic commercial airliner which currently cannot legally fly but is nearing production anyway.

    https://aviationsourcenews.com/analysis/boom-supersonic-overture-vs-concorde-comparing-the-pair/

    By the way, Boom, aka DMC Global Inc., has a valuation of $1B to $10B, consisting largely of investor funding.

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    Cannot fly legally over land, that is.

    Supersonic flight over oceans is still permitted, and would be DMC Global's first market, regardless of what happens with the FAAs ban of commercial supersonic flight over land.

    ifixcoinops, to random
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    Symptom: Trek keeps acting like you've lost the ball when you haven't.

    Observation: connectors on the trough opto board are all bent and screwed up, and someone's soldered wires to the backs of the headers.

    Diagnosis: someone tried taking the trough out without unplugging stuff, connectors got bent and mangled, they went hell let's get this back up and running ASAP and butchered it.

    Solution: dang we've got no right-angle 254 headers, I'll order some, a week goes by and continue to the next post

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    @C8H10N4O2 @ifixcoinops

    "There is nothing so permanent as a temporary fix."

    ifixcoinops, (edited ) to random
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    A boosted "Hey it's getting dark and I'm getting blue, help me out with Seasonal Affective Disorder tips" post reminded me of how I deal with my own seasonal affective disorder, so here, a small thread.

    Here's how it works for me: my brain tells me to be sad in winter and happy in spring. But, my brain is a gullible little noodle, and I can trick it into thinking it's summer just by shining a bright light at it. So, light therapy lamp!

    EXCEPT: light therapy lamps are very expensive. If I'm to spend money on my brain, I'm going to do it the cheap way AND the silly way, and build a smegging light therapy CANNON

    (edit: haha this angle makes my wrist look REALLY WEIRD lol noodlywrist)

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    @ifixcoinops

    I checked my collection of beloved light bulbs, and the 1000 watt tungsten is good for about 24K lumens, and the two degraded old 400 watt ceramic metal halide fixtures are about the same, but bluer.

    Any of them will warm your skin if they share a room with you, as well as being bright, and they will also heat it up considerably.

    I think your light cannon is good for a couple of hundred watts of heat as well. Cozy!

    I love long winter nights. The passage of time seems to slow.

    mcnees, to random
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    Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born in 1906.

    As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

    Image: Computer History Museum

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    @mcnees

    She came to my school, once in the late 1970s, and handed out nanoseconds to all that wanted them.

    cypnk, to random
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    The future as envisioned in 1967

    A futuristic outlook of 1999 showing online shopping and 'e-learning'

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    @ColinTheMathmo @cypnk

    Came here to say just that.
    How did you meet Sprouts?

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    @ColinTheMathmo @cypnk

    Pretty sure I saw it illustrated in a science fiction novel. I thought at first it was written by John Brunner, but on research it appears that it was a book by Piers Anthony. I was reading them both at the time.

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